Baby Boat: A Memoir of Adoption

by Patty Dann

Book Overview

"Get children?" At first I did not understand, but quickly realized he meant "have a baby". I was then thirty-six years old and had never wed. I could feel the arsenal of eggs I'd been born with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786884118
• ISBN13: 9780786884117
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.6" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

The Baby Boat

I read this book and fell in love with it. Couldn't put it down! It is a wonderful book for parents who are in the process of international adoption and for their families who want to know and feel what they are going thru.

a funny and poignant happy-ending story of adoption

No wonder Patty Dann's memoir of adoption reads like a novel--she's a novelist! She wrote that movie MERMAIDS that Cher and Winona Ryder and Cristina Ricci were in. You can't put The Baby Boat down; you root for the characters; and you're choked up in some passages, smiling through others. The Baby Boat is a pleasure to read, and it also shows that courage and patience can pay off. Their new baby is a lucky little person, and I've given this book to other couples who are beginning the odyssey of adoption.

An insightful and positive view for a change!

This book provides an entertaining and informative look inside the world of international adoption. Written in journal format, it gives the reader insight which could only be obtained through a personal memoir. There are moments of great hilarity as well as great sadness. But the story has a happy ending, and gives a positive view overall of the adoption process. With so much negative press about adoption in general, this was a breath of fresh air!